1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
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1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
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Genesis 43:30
Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
Hosea 11:8
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
Philippians 1:8
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
Song of Solomon 5:4
My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Philippians 2:1
If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Genesis 21:16
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Exodus 2:3
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
2 Samuel 21:9
He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites; and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
2 Samuel 21:10
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
2 Kings 4:19
He said to his father, “My head! My head!” He said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
2 Kings 4:20
When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
Matthew 15:22
Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
1 Samuel 2:19
Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
John 19:25
But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Jeremiah 31:15
Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
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1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
1 Kings 3:17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
1 Kings 3:18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
1 Kings 3:19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”
1 Kings 3:22
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”
1 Kings 3:24
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
1 Kings 3:25
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
1 Kings 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
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